Adina Williams - Research Scientist at facebookresearch

Adina Williams

Research Scientist at facebookresearch

New York, New York, United States

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Adina Williams is a Research Scientist at Meta FAIR NYC with a decade of experience at the intersection of computational linguistics, neurolinguistics, and NLP. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from NYU and blends formal syntax and semantics with experimental methods like MEG and psycholinguistics to probe language understanding. Her work spans academic and industrial research—previously a postdoc at Facebook AI—bringing cognitive-science rigor to building language models and semantic representations. Comfortable with both fieldwork in multilingual settings and lab-based neuroscience, she also has a background in Mandarin study and applied outreach that informs her cross-cultural perspective on language. Colleagues know her for combining deep theoretical insight with hands-on empirical techniques to tackle long-term AI problems.

10 years of coding experience

6 years of employment as a software developer

Pioneer High School

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics at New York University

Master's Degree, Linguistics, Master's Degree, Linguistics at Michigan State University

B.S., Neuroscience, Asian Studies (Chinese), B.S., Neuroscience, Asian Studies (Chinese) at University of Michigan

N/A, Mandarin, N/A, Mandarin at Soochow University (CN)

English, Chinese, German

Github Skills (14)

encoding5

sentence5

tree-structure4

nlp4

machine-learning3

semantics2

lucee2

benchmark2

benchmarking2

deep-learning2

pytorch1

tensorflow1

ethereum1

blockchain1

Programming languages (1)

Python

Github contributions (5)

arendu-zz/Unambiguous-gender-bias

Mar 2021 - May 2021

Contributions:20 commits in 2 months

adinawilliams/Transitivity-Orthoforms

Mar 2018 - Sep 2018

Contributions:15 pushes in 6 months

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